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Tom Gauld on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – cartoon
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (11+ words) Continue reading... Tom Gauld on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – cartoon...
Caroline Aherne by David Scott review – portrait of a comedy maverick
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (868+ words) A biography of the creative force behind Mrs Merton and The Royle Family focuses on the stories behind her workFrom the 1990s until her tragically early death in 2016, Caroline Aherne was a fixture of British primetime television. This new study of…...
If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (383+ words) Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativityThe great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf into Spanish, drew the line at…...
Tom Gauld on Chaucer’s first unboxing video – cartoon
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (11+ words) Continue reading... Tom Gauld on Chaucer’s first unboxing video – cartoon...
This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – an illuminating window on Emily Brontë’s world
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1135+ words) Vivid, tactile details make Lutz’s biography a beautifully textured and convincing readBoth Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially online, in the wake of the recent film) “unhinged”. So it’s a relief…...
See You on the Other Side by Jay McInerney review – the clumsy finale of a classic New York series
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (206+ words) The bright young things of 1992’s Brightness Falls are now in their 60s in this verbose, clunky novel that seems more interested in lifestyle than inner lives At its best, See You on the Other Side offers the reader the chatty,…...
Go Gentle by Maria Semple review – a joyfully clever New York romcom
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (230+ words) A Stoic philosopher navigates midlife in this madcap comedy from the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette What would Marcus Aurelius have made of the Kardashians? Would Seneca have been amused by mindfulness apps? These were questions I had never…...
Deborah Levy: ‘CS Lewis’s White Witch terrified me – but I wanted to meet her’
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (276+ words) The South African author on discovering Colette, being inspired by JG Ballard, and the subversive joys of Asako Yuzuki My favourite book growing up I was delighted to move on to the imaginative sophistication of The Lion, the Witch and…...
My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining
5+ mon, 4+ hour ago (999+ words) Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in ParisThe narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty scherzo of a “fiction” – “novel” isn’t the word for this uncategorisable book – thinks that Gertrude Stein…...
Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (1405+ words) After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First FolioThis is really two books in one. The first part consists of the diaries written by Antony Sher in the…...